A sign that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

Yeah, I feel like the improvements in gaming hardware have gone 50% to improving dynamic systems and graphics, and 50% to messy project bloat. Not to mention the constant crunch culture means they never have time to clean things up before launch, and after launch is for game breaking bugs and DLC.

That’s gotta be a prank, right? Right??

Yeah, I agree with all of their points except for SpaceX, which has been an unequivocal success that doesn’t deserve to be painted with the same brush Elon is. They revolutionized space flight, broke into the national security launch industry that was entirely captured by the United Launch alliance, and stand to obsolete the (93 billion dollar!) Space Launch System the moment the Starship is approved for commercial launches.

Dozens of Falcon 9’s exploded while testing them and especially while attempting to land and reuse boosters, so the Starship failure was all but expected. I hate Elon Musk too, but SpaceX is arguably the most successful aerospace company at the moment. Were NASA allowed full control of their money, I think it’d be better, but as it is the viability of many of their future projects hinges on SpaceX.

I believe in you. You can do anything you set your mind to.

Meat vegetables 🤤

I mean, as long as you’re vegetarian to avoid causing harm, mussels are basically a pass. Oysters should fall into the same area, since they also have decentralized ganglia instead of a central nervous system. And they’re good for the water, so planting more of them is a good idea.

I mean, sure, but raiding two military bases and facing 5 years to life for having some vape juice and a couple ounces of synthetic marijuana spread across twenty some people is absurd. Especially when places are steadily legalizing marijuana.

Christ on a cracker. For six grand I’ll raise their kid. The kid can keep a thousand a month for having shitty parents, and I can make sure there aren’t any dead animals laying in the yard.

Well, it’s a cluster of synthetic cannabinoids, but it was officially banned by the DEA after they finally skipped past the banning specific molecules and banned the entire family of cannabinoids, so it’s no longer the molecule of the month special.

Still not ideal though.

Maybe someone who hoped for a more negative Friday morning? 🤔

Copyright law has been such a disaster for so long, while clearly being wielded like a blunt weapon by corporations. I can see the existential threat that generative AI can pose to creators if it becomes good enough. And I also am aware that my dream of asking an AI to make a buddy cop adventure where Batman and Deadpool accidentally bust into the Disney universe, or remake the final season of Game of Thrones, is never gonna be allowed, but there’s honestly a huge amount of potential for people to get the entertainment they want.

At any rate, it seems likely that they’re going to try and neuter generative AI with restrictions, despite it really not being the issue at hand.

Right, but would that be pursued if a human did the same thing? Because there’s a vast amount of fanfiction churned out by human hands, and it’s safe as long as they don’t try to monetize it. Seems like most of the fear is the existential threat that it might suddenly begin writing good stories, and destabilize the entire writing industry as people can just ask for exactly the sort of story they want. For free. (But not actually, because corporations will own all the AI and data).

“Finally, some good fucking news.”

Yeah, in academia getting approval for primate research projects is a huge process where you need to clarify every aspect of the protocol, housing, care, and experimental operations to submit before the project can start. I’m less sure if it’s voluntary or required, but we had funding allocated for their retirement from the start. They’re smart enough and strong enough that I’d be terrified to work with unhappy and unwell primates.

Not that all research projects are have happy endings, but I don’t think corporate research has the same restrictions and oversight that academic research does, given that this even happened. I’m pretty accepting of the necessity of primate research models, but we should be doing everything we can to treat them as best we can. Withdrawing a subject from the experimental protocol should be preferred over letting an infection fester just because the implant is in the way. Just seems really poorly done on their part.

Man, a decade ago I was so excited for self-driving cars. Now I’m just kinda keeping my fingers crossed that whichever corporation gets approved first doesn’t cut too many corners. I know that statistically self-driving cars are better than humans, but I feel like “good enough” is a lot more likely than “better than human in all cases”.

Well tell it to stop breaking all my stuff. This is bullying 😭

That lady’s a lifesaver.

119,000 dollars worth of drugs in a single drone though? And I thought inflation was bad at the grocery store.

Yeah, what we were always missing after fleeing cable, was the ads that really made each show worth it.

Why can’t we just have nice things?

Well, it has been a while since we’ve had a good Red Scare, and we even have a prominent McCarthy for this next round.

That said, it always throws me for a loop when the news just casually reports about the location of a spy station.

Can’t complain about how the government doesn’t work, if the government works.